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e today we do not plan to support additional third party ai development tools the memo read as quoted by reuters at the time as part of our builder community you all play a critical role shaping these products and we use your feedback to aggressively improve them it was an unusual development considering the tens of billions of dollars the e commerce giant has invested in its competitors in the space including anthropic and openai half a year later amazon is singing a dramatically different tune as business insider reports amazon is officially throwing in the towel succumbing to growing calls among employees for access to openai s codex and anthropic s claude given the unfortunate optics of opening the floodgates for codex and claude code an amazon spokesperson told the publication in a statement that teams are still primarily using kiro claiming that 83 percent of engineers at the company are leaning on it 183127788 story notepad for mac release is disavowed by the creator of the original arstechnica com 67 posted by beauhd on tuesday may 05 2026 11 00am from the trademark violations dept an anonymous reader quotes a report from ars technica written by andrew cunningham as its name implies the venerable notepad text editor began as a more capable version of the classic windows notepad with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting it was created in 2003 by don ho who continues to be its primary author and maintainer and it has been a windows exclusive app throughout its existence older notepad versions support oses as old as windows 95 the current version officially supports everything going back to windows 7 i m not a devoted user of the app but i was aware of its history which is why i was surprised to see news of a notepad for mac port making the rounds last week as though it were a port of the original available from the notepad website apparently this news surprised ho as well who claims that the mac version and its author andrey letov are using the notepad trademark the name without permission this is misleading inappropriate and frankly disrespectful to both the project and its users ho wrote it has already fooled people including tech media into believing this is an official release to be crystal clear notepad has never released a macos version anyone claiming otherwise is simply riding on the notepad name ho repeatedly asked the developer to stop using the brand and eventually reported the trademark use to cloudflare the cdn of the notepad for mac site every day that website remains active you are in further violation of the law ho wrote i cannot authorize a week or two of continued trademark infringement letov has since begun rebranding the app as nextpad though the old branding and url reportedly remained available the name changes is an homage to next computer notes ars and uses a frog icon rather than the notepad lizard 183096434 story ai agent designed to speed up company s coding wipes entire database in 9 seconds livescience com 110 posted by beauhd on friday may 01 2026 06 00pm from the was it worth it dept joshuark shares a report from live science an ai coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds pocketos founder jer crane said that the ai coding agent cursor powered by anthropic s claude opus 4 6 model deleted the company s entire production database and backups with a single call to its cloud provider railway on april 24 this isn t a story about one bad agent or one bad api application programming interfaces crane wrote in an x post it s about an entire industry building ai agent integrations into production infrastructure faster than it s building the safety architecture to make those integrations safe crane s company pocketos makes software for car rental companies handling tasks such as reservations payments customer records and vehicle tracking after the deletion crane said customers lost reservations and new signups and some could not find records for people arriving to pick up their rental cars we ve contacted legal counsel crane wrote we are documenting everything crane explained that cursor found an api token a digital key made of a short sequence of code that lets software talk to other services and prove it has permission to act in an unrelated file which it then used to run the destructive command according to crane railway s setup allowed the deletion without confirmation and because the backups were stored close enough to the main database they were also erased railway resolved the issue and restored the data railway confirmed via email to live science we maintain both user backups as well as disaster backups we take data very very seriously in his post he pointed to earlier reports of cursor ignoring user rules changing files it was not supposed to touch and taking actions beyond the task it had been given to him the database wipe was not a freak accident but the next step in a larger more concerning pattern after the database vanished crane asked cursor to explain what happened the ai agent reportedly admitted that it had guessed acted without permission and failed to understand the command before running it i violated every principle i was given the ai agent wrote i guessed instead of verifying i ran a destructive action without being asked i didn t understand what i was doing before doing it the statement reads like a confession we are not the first crane wrote we will not be the last unless this gets airtime 183094934 story the case against an imminent software developer apocalypse zdnet com 59 posted by beauhd on friday may 01 2026 03 00pm from the shifting tasks dept zipnada shares a report from zdnet given the dour headlines as of late concerning the diminishing amounts of entry level software development jobs coupled with predictions of applications entirely ai generated one could be forgiven for assuming that software developers may soon be an endangered species however the data tells a different story james bessen professor at boston university has been pushing back for some time against the talk of ai and automation displacing jobs on a mass scale and lately has been arguing that the roles of software developers are nowhere near extinction ai is certainly not killing the software developer bessen said in a recent analysis pdf ai is taking over software development tasks and boosting productivity and output but that is not translating into lost jobs he argued instead the types of software skills sought by companies are changing surprisingly however after three years of ai use software developer jobs have continued to grow robustly reaching record levels of employment 2 5 million in february bessen said in the report citing data from the us bureau of labor statistics the number of software developers in the us has grown by over 400 000 or 19 since chatgpt was introduced in 2022 at that time the employed software developer population was just under 2 1 million the productivity uptick developers are seeing may ultimately be a boost to their professional opportunities however an important and possibly disruptive change is happening but the common view misunderstands what is going on bessen pointed out in his report careful case studies find that ai improves the productivity of software developers that is the software produced per developer by 30 50 or more and the rate of productivity improvement in software development is improving tellingly since 2022 when chatgpt was introduced developer productivity has increased noticeably bessen continued from 2003 to 2022 developer productivity grew at 3 9 per year but from 2022 through 2025 it grew at 6 per year a coming flood of new software products now more likely to be enhanced by ai will continue to create jobs for developers bessen predicted thus mass unemployment of software developers seems unlikely to happen soon this doesn t mean the job descriptions of developers or other computer occupations will remain static ai is shifting and re inventing these roles bessen added 183054716 story github no longer a place for serious work says hashicorp co founder theregister com 82 posted by beauhd on wednesday april 29 2026 01 00pm from the actions speak louder than words dept hashicorp co founder mitchell hashimoto says github s frequent outages have made it no longer a place for serious work prompting him to move his ghostty terminal emulator project elsewhere after 18 years on the platform the register reports i ve been angry about it i ve hurt people s feelings i ve been lashing out because github is failing me every single day and it is personal it is irrationally personal he wrote the reason for his ire is the service has become unreliable for the past month i ve kept a journal where i put an x next to every date where a github outage has negatively impacted my ability to work he wrote almost every day has an x on the day i am writing this post i ve been unable to do any pr review for 2 hours because there is a github actions outage hashimoto penned his post a few days before an april 28 incident that saw pull requests fail to complete due to an elasticsearch snafu incidents like that mean hashimoto has decided github is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day every day it s not a fun place for me to be anymore he lamented i want to be there but it doesn t want me to be there i want to get work done and it doesn t want me to get work done i want to ship software and it doesn t want me to ship software the developer says he wants github to improve but i also want to code and i can t code with github anymore i m sorry after 18 years i ve got to go he s open to a return if github can deliver real results and improvements not words and promises but for now he s working to move ghostty to another collaborative code locker we have a plan but i m also very much still in discussions with multiple providers both commercial and foss hashimoto wrote it ll take us time to remove all of our dependencies on github and we have a plan in place to do it as incrementally as possible he s doing the equivalent of leaving a toothbrush at a former partner s house by leaving a read only mirror of ghostty on github and by keeping his personal projects on the microsoft owned service but hashimoto s moving his day job somewhere new ghostty is where i our maintainers and our open source community are most impacted so that is the focus of this change we ll see where it goes after that he concluded 183032502 story electrical current might be the key to a better cup of coffee arstechnica com 55 posted by beauhd on tuesday april 28 2026 07 00pm from the latest breakthrough dept an anonymous reader quotes a report from ars technica university of oregon chemist christopher hendon loves his coffee so much so that studying all the factors that go into creating the perfect cuppa constitutes a significant area of research for him his latest project discovering a novel means of measuring the flavor profile of coffee simply by sending an electrical current through a sample beverage the results appear in a new paper published in the journal nature communications the coffee industry typically uses a method for measuring the refractive index of coffee i e how light bends as it travels through the liquid to determine strength but it doesn t capture the contribution of roast color to the overall flavor profile so for this latest study hendon decided to focus on roast color and beverage strength the two variables most likely to affect the sensory profile of the final cuppa his solution turned out to be quite simple hendon repurposed an electrochemical tool called a potentiostat typically used to test battery and fuel cell performance hendon used the tool to measure how electricity interacted with the liquid he found that this provided a better measurement of the flavor profile he even tested it on four different samples of coffee beans and successfully identified the distinctive signature of a batch that had failed the roaster s quality control process granted one s taste in coffee is fairly subjective so hendon s goal was not to achieve a perfect cup but to give baristas a simple tool to consistently reproduce flavor profiles more tailored to a given customer s taste it s an objective way to make a statement about what people like in a cup of coffee said hendon the reason you have an enjoyable cup of coffee is almost certainly that you have selected a coffee of a particular roast color and extracted it to a desired strength until now we haven t been able to separate those variables now we can diagnose what gives rise to that delicious cup outside of his latest electrical current experiment christopher hendon s coffee research has shown that espresso can be made more consistently by modeling extraction yield how much coffee dissolves into the final drink and controlling water flow and pressure he also found that static electricity from grinding causes fine coffee particles to clump which disrupts brewing the solution adding a small squirt of water to beans before grinding known as the ross droplet technique to reduce that static cut clumping and waste and lead to a stronger more consistent espresso 182990254 story github copilot is moving to usage based billing 43 posted by beauhd on monday april 27 2026 02 00pm from the end of an era dept github said in a blog post today that it is moving copilot to usage based billing starting june 1 base subscription prices will remain the same but premium requests will be replaced with monthly ai credits that are consumed based on token usage instead of counting premium requests every copilot plan will include a monthly allotment of github ai credits with the option for paid plans to purchase additional usage the platform said usage will be calculated based on token consumption including input output and cached tokens using the listed api rates for each model this change aligns copilot pricing with actual usage and is an important step toward a sustainable reliable copilot business and experience for all users documentation for individuals businesses and enterprises and an faq can be found at their respective links 181838330 story spacex strikes deal with coding startup cursor for 60 billion nytimes com 74 posted by beauhd on tuesday april 21 2026 11 30pm from the acquisition optional dept an anonymous reader quotes a report from the new york times spacex elon musk s rocket and satellite company said on tuesday that it had struck a deal with the artificial intelligence start up cursor that could result in its acquiring the young company for 60 billion spacex is making the deal just as it prepares to go public in what is likely to be one of the largest initial public offerings ever in a social media post spacex said the combination with cursor which makes code writing software would allow...